CHIEF security officers have a lot on their plate these days, from a daily influx of zero-day vulnerabilities to increasingly sophisticated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

It’s a good bet that securing their unified communications (UC) application isn’t keeping them up at night. But maybe it should be?

Traditionally, enterprise security has centred around data: customer data, corporate data, credit card data, etc. There is a thriving, global, cybercriminal community built just around the goal of stealing data or, increasingly, encrypting it and holding it for ransom (known as ransomware).

Enterprises collectively spend billions of dollars each year protecting their data through firewalls and other data-centric security devices. In a sense, enterprises have locked their data doors tightly, but have they left another window open?

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